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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 8414
Released: September 16, 2008 |
| Our Price: $4.78 |
| Used Price: $1.01 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A hilarious comedy starring Mike Myers as guru Pitka in his first original character since the blockbuster hit Austin Powers. Myers plays an American raised in India by gurus (Tugginmypudha & Satchabigknoba) and returns to the U.S. in order to break into the self-help business. His unorthodox methods are put to the test when he must settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player (Romany Malco), whose wife left him for a rival athlete Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake). Mini Me is back from Austin Powers and plays the hockey coach for more classic comedic moments that will have audiences laughing from opening to closing credits.
Description of The Love Guru (Single-Disc Edition):
Mike Myers, creator of Wayne's World and Austin Powers, adds another character to his arsenal of comic personae. With his thick beard, curly mustachios, and easy-to-remember aphorisms, Guru Pitka (Myers) has built a reputation as love advisor par excellence--but he's still just America's #2 guru, after Deepak Chopra. Finally an opportunity comes his way: If he can heal the rift between a star hockey player (Romany Marco, Weeds) and his wife (Meagan Good, Stomp the Yard), he can appear on Oprah. But when he meets the hockey team's comely owner (Jessica Alba), Pitka realizes he must solve his own love problems as well. Myers can't resist a good bodily functions joke--unfortunately, he can't resist a bad one either, so The Love Guru is crammed top to bottom with jokes about urine, feces, sex, genitalia--lots and lots about male genitalia--along with many, many gags about Canada, drugs, elephants, inspirational catchphrases, and little people (Vern "Mini-Me" Troyer takes the brunt of these). But the Austin Powers movies were pretty much the same sort of lowbrow comedy grab-bag; though the ratio of good to bad might be weaker here, a good handful of bits offer solid laughs, including some mock-Bollywood musical numbers. Also featuring pop star Justin Timberlake (as a preposterously well-endowed French-Canadian), Ben Kingsley (as Pitka's cross-eyed mentor), Stephen Colbert (as a drug-addled sports announcer), as well as numerous celebrity cameos. --Bret Fetzer
The Love Guru (Single-Disc Edition) Reviews:
Break The Pickle Tickle tickle 
2009-10-08 - I don't care what anybody says this movie is hilarrious mike myers is freakin hillarious in this movie. it's a must see
Disappointed 
2009-10-04 - This was a bootlegged copy. It appeared that it was mailed to me from someone's place of business, as it was bulk mailed from a national bank like US Bank.
I should have known better for the price of $.01
LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!! AHHHH AMAZING!
2009-09-23 - I LOVE THIS MOVIE I COMPLETELY AGREE THIS MOVIE IS NOT VERY FUNNY TO ME BUT MY HUSBAND LAUGHS HIS CHEEKS OFF SO IT DEPENDS ON YOU I PERSONALLY LOVE THIS MOVIE YOU JUST CANT GET TIRED OF IT ITS VERY ENTERTAINING I AGREE WITH OTHER VIEWERS ITS A LIL MORE STUPID BUT IT WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH AT LEAST ONCE BUT ITS VERY ENJOYABLE TO WATCH! WITH THE FAMILY ITS A NICE MOVIE MIGH NOT BE HILARIOUS BUT IT HAS ITS THING AND I PERSONALLY LOVE THIS MOVIE DONT GET TIRED OF WATCHING IT NEITHER DOES MY HUSBAND SO I THINK IT WAS WELL WORTH EVERY PENNY. :)
Disappointing! 
2009-09-18 - Mike Myers plays the role of a Canadian Indian guru who was asked to visit Canada and help a hockey player get back to his girl friend so he can play well again and help his team win. He succeeds in his mission, and he also falls in love with Jessica Alba and gets her to live in India with him.
I don't remember laughing at this film. Even though I was prepared to laugh, however this film didn't do it for me. Perhaps the reason is the excessive jokes based on proverbs that are not even funny.
It is quite disappointing that after the hilarious "Austin Powers", Mike Myers returns to us with the Love Guru.
Didn't like it, and I don't recommend buying it.
Worst movie of all time possibly?
2009-07-24 - Was this Mike Myers' evil twin? This was, in my memory, the worst movie I have ever seen. The constant repeatativeness and forced "jokes" down your throat are almost maddening when I consider how much I've like Mike Myers' movies before this. The "character" seems so much like the Austin Powers characters I wonder if this is all he has to offer us now. I enjoyed the music but if a movie is so bad that I have to focus on the music for a positive, that's a really bad movie. Honestly, I would not buy this and I bet those trying to hurry and get rid of their copies of this movie are having a hard time. I hope Mike can come back from this and not have it ruin how people will remember him.
